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Story 4: Australian Crime Scenes

Story: In 1865 Henry Louis Bertrand, “The Mad Dentist of Wynyard Square”, and his mistress Ellen Kinder murdered Ellen’s husband, Henry Kinder. After several botched attempts to kill Kinder, including shooting him, Bertrand convinced his lover to finish the job by poisoning him with a mixture of Belladonna and milk. The case was originally dismissed as a suicide until it was reopened and Bertrand was convicted of murder.